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Cursive Macroexpander
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The other new feature is an interactive macroexpander. It requires a REPL to perform | |
the actual expansion, with the current namespace loaded into it. Start by executing | |
Tools->REPL->View Macro Expansion. This will select the nearest surrounding macro | |
form and display it in a popup window. You can move the cursor anywhere within the | |
form and either click the right arrow in the toolbar or use Ctrl/Cmd-right - this | |
will expand the nearest surrounding macro form and all forms above it up to the | |
top displayed form - the cursor will be left at the start of the innermost form | |
that was actually expanded. Give it a try, it’s less confusing than it sounds! | |
There are also various controls in the toolbar for various sorts of prettification - | |
you can show and hide metadata, tidy up referred vars and imported classes etc. This | |
expander should be much more accurate than most, it correctly maintains &env when | |
expanding and does its best with metadata. Currently this only works for Clojure | |
macros, but I’ll add support for expanding ClojureScript macros soon. |
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